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Mable's Smokehouse
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It didn't take much time for us to realize that we were going to like Mable's Smokehouse. Why? For starters, Frito pie. High fives if you know what that is. Chances are you spent some time as a kid hanging at a suburban Texas pool snack bar. I certainly ate my fair share of the stuff (chili+cheese+pile of Fritos), either right before or right after I got a nosebleed from the diving board trying to impress all those girls who definitely weren't looking. Yep. Still got it.
Nostalgia points aside, we really just like Mable's for it's sheer simplicity. This is quality BBQ, and the restaurant could fly just as easily in Austin as it does in our burgeoning BBQ town of Williamsburg. The menu is small and familiar - in some ways the antithesis to the nearby hipster mecca Fette Sau - but everything tastes exactly like you hope it's going to. We loved the brisket and the pulled pork sandwich, and the ribs are solid too. The standard BBQ sides all do they job that they need to, but it is an official Infatuation mandate that you order the Frito pie when you are here - partly because it's awesome, and partly because I need to make sure they keep serving it so I can relive my glory days from time to time. Now which one of you ladies wants to see me do a can opener?